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May 1, 1936. E. w. STACEY FOXING LAYING MACHINE Filed Nov. 25, 1933 ll Sheets-Sheet 11 Patented May 19, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FOXING LAYING MACHINE Application November 23, 1933, Serial No. 699,423

78 Claims.

This invention relates to machines for use in the manufacture of boots and shoes and is herein illustrated as embodied in a machine for applying foxing to the lower margin or foxing area of a rubber-soled shoe.

In the manufacture of rubber-soled footwear having fabric uppers, such for example as tennis shoes, in which the soles are vulcanized to the upper, it is customary, after the shoe has been lasted but before the unvulcanized sole has been attached, to lay the narrow strip of unvulcanized rubber, known as a foxing, along the lower margin of the shoe, the lower part of the foxing being bent over upon the bottom of the shoe. After the foxing has been thus applied, the unvulcanized rubber sole is laid on the bottom of the shoe and the rubber is vulcanized. The foxing not only gives a neat appearance to the shoe but aids in securing a tight joint between the upper of the shoe and the sole.

The foxing is a narrow firmly strip of unvulcanized rubber which may very readily be distorted as it is pressed against the shoe. Consequently, if a uniform finished result is to be attained, each portion of the foxing should be subjected to substantially the same pressure against the shoe for the same length of time. According, therefore, to one feature of the invention, there is provided a holder for a shoe, a foxingapplying tool, means for causing the tool to press the foxing against the foxing area of the shoe with a substantially constant pressure, and means for imparting movement to the shoe holder in such manner as to cause the foxing area of the shoe to be traversed by the tool at a substantially constant linear velocity. In the illustrated construction, the tool is an idle roll caused by a spring to press the foxing against the shoe, and the shoe holder or jack has imparted to it movements of rotation while the foxing is being laid around the toe end and the heel end of a shoe, and substantially straight-line movements of translation while the foxing is being laid along the sides of the shoe, these movements being caused by a pinion which engages the teeth of a properly-shaped endless rack on the jack so that the tool traverses the shoe at a substantially constant velocity.

Due to the longitudinal curvature of the bottom of a shoe, the level of the foxing area at some localities is different from that at others, for example the level of the foxing area at the heel end of a shoe is different from that at the toe end. According to another feature of the invention, means are provided for tilting or rocking the shoe at proper times during its movements of translation to compensate for this difference in level. In the illustrated machine the shoe in its initial position has its bottom at the ball line and at the heel upon a flat bottom-rest, and the foxing is laid by a foxing-applying roll with its upper edge in a straight line along the lower margin of the shoe from the heel end of the shoe to the locality of the ball line; but, from the ball line forward around the toe end and back to the ball line, the foxing is laid with its upper edge curved to correspond to the curvature of the edge of the bottom of the shoe so that said upper edge is substantially equidistant at all points from the adjacent points on the edge of the bottom of the shoe. The foxing-applying roll not only applies the foxing to the shoe but draws the foxing from a coiled supply strip of indeterminate length past certain guide rolls. In order to pull the foxing strip evenly along, the axis of the foxing-applying roll should be maintained perpendicular to the direction in which the strip is pulled. In order to avoid the formation of wrinkles in the foxing, as it is laid on the foxing area of the shoe, the axis of the foxing-applying roll should be maintained at all times perpendicular to the upper edge of the foxing area. The laying of the foxing between the heel end of the shoe and the ball line presents no special difficulty since the upper edge of the foxing is laid in a straight line; but from the ball line around the toe portion of the shoe some relative movement between the foxing-applying roll and the shoe, heightwise of the shoe, should be provided for. In the illustrated machine, during the laying of the foxing around the toe portion, the shoe is first rocked up on its toe and then rocked back to initial position, these rocking movements being so timed with respect to the movements of translation and rotation of the shoe that the desired angular relation between the axis of the foxingapplying roll and the upper edge of the foxing area is maintained substantially constant.

It is usual not only to apply a foxing to the foxing area of the shoe and to press it into place, but to indent or stitch the upper edge of the foxing. According to another feature of the invention, there is provided a combined tool comprising a deformable applying roll and a rigid indenting wheel. toothed indenting wheel is fast to the upper end of a spindle, while below the tool and also fast to the spindle is a rubber applying roll. With this construction, the toothed wheel indents the upper edge of thefoxing, and the periphery of In the illustrated construction, a r

the rubber roll conforms to the varying contour of the foxing area of the shoe and presses the body portion of the foxing into place.

In machines of the general type of the present machine in which foXing is supplied in the form of a long strip, wound in a coil upon a reel, and the free end of the strip is guided to the foxingapplying tool and applied to the shoe, the strip is severed at or near the end of the foxing-applying operation. Prior to the presentation of another shoe to the machine, the severed end of the foxing strip should be fed forward a short distance to bring it into position to be applied to the next shoe presented to the machine; and in accordance with a further feature of the invention, mechanism for so feeding it is provided. In the illustrated construction, the foxing strip is severed at a locality which is in contact with the foxing-applying roll, and the severed end is then pressed against the roll by a gripper which, acting through: the strip, imparts a partial rotation to the-roll tofeedthe end. of the'strip into the desired position ready for application to the next shoe.

These and other features of. the invention, including certain details of construction and combinations of parts, willbe described as embodied in annillustrated. machine; and pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings,

Fig. 1' is an elevation of the upper part of a machine in which the present invention is embodied, a shoebeing shown: in' process: of having a foxing applied around its toe end,

Figs.. 1a: to 1 show consecutively in plan and elevation. certain stages in the movements of the shoe,

Fig. 2. is. a transverse. section taken just above the jack looking dowrrupon the. jack structure,

Fig. 3 isarear elevation ofithe jack,

Fig; 4 ista transverse section of thejack on the line IV-IV of Fig. 6',

Fig. 5 is an elevation of the jack and a shoe, the shoe being in the same position inwhich it is shown in- Fig. iszan elevation of a jack and ashoe, the shoe being shown. in the same position. as in Fig. 1e,

Fig. 7' is a longitudinal section on the line VII-VII of Fig. 6,

Fig. 8 is a longitudinal section on the line VIII-VIII of Fig. 6,

Fig. 9 is a plan of the bottom-rest'for the shoe, the foxing-applying roll and the mechanism for supporting and operating these members,

Fig. 10 is an elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 9, a shoe being shown in broken lines in process of being operated upon,

Fig. 11 is a View partly in section and partly in elevation of the mechanism for operating the bottom-rest and the foxing-applying tool,

Fig. 11a is' a detail of part of mechanism for operating the knife which severs the foxing strip,

Fig. 12 is. an elevation. of the mechanism for unwinding the foxing strip from the supply reel by which a. coil of it is carried,

Fig. 12a..is a. detail of part of the mechanism for operating the knife,

Fig. 13 is an elevation of portions of the arms which carry respectively the bottom-rest and the foxing-applying. tool and. of portions of the knife actuating mechanism, certain parts having been brokenaway;

Fig. 14; is an elevationofa-portion ofthe mechnism for swinging the two arms toward and away from the shoe,

Fig. 15 is a detail in perspective of the lug 343 shown in Fig. 14,

Fig. 16 is a detail in elevation of the mechanism for tilting the foxing-applying roll, the toolcarrying arm and the knife-operating rod being shown in section,

Fig. 17 is a detail showing the foxing-applying roll in two positions in which it contacts with a shoe,

Fig. 18 is a sectional view of the mechanism for feeding the foxing strip,

Fig. 19 is a perspective showing the mounting of the knife,

Fig. 20 is a plan of the mechanism shown in Fig. 18, the heel end of a shoe being shown in section in process of being operated upon,

Fig. 20a is a diagrammatic view showing the front, rear and middle positions of the knife,

Fig; 21. is a section on the line XXI-XXI of Fig. 18: showing part of the mounting of the gripper,

Fig. 22 is a section on the line XX[IXXII of Fig. 18 showing part of the mechanism for con- I trolling the movements of the gripper,

Fig. 22a is a. detail principally in plan of certain parts shown in Fig. 22 but with these parts in other positions,

Fig. 23 is a section on the line XXIIIXX[II of Fig; 18 showing part of the mechanism for operating the gripper, and

Figs. 24 to 27 are sections on the line XXIV- XXVII of Fig..18 showing how the foxing strip is severed and how the severed end is fed forward the present machine diiiers somewhat from that of the machine of the application and a foxingapplying mechanism has been substituted for the cement-applying mechanism. Before proceeding to describe what is new, a general description of What is old, together with brief references to what is new, will be given. Referring first to Fig. 1, which shows in elevation the upper part of the machine, the machine comprises a base A, an adjustable casting B for the foxing-applying mechanism, and a head C bolted to the base. Carried by the head 0 is a shoe support or jack D by which the shoe is'held and which is moved to present the foXing area of the shoe to the foxing applying mechanism. The shoe is held right side up with its longitudinal axis inclined at about 45; and the casting B is mounted on inclined guideways formed on the base to permit the casting to be adjusted for shoes of different heights. A foXing-applying tool in the form of a rubber roll 3!, which takes the place of the cement-applying tool of the machine of the application, is mounted for yielding movement to and from the shoe, for movement heightwise of the shoe and for rocking movement so as to follow the contour of the foxing area as the shoe is moved past it; and the jack is actuated in such a manner as to cause the foxing area of the shoe to travel past the tool. In Fig. 1, the shoe is shown locked to the jack and in process of having a foxing applied around the toe portion thereof. the shoe having been rocked up on its toe portion in a manner not possible of accomplishment with the foXing-cementing machine of my prior application. The machine comes to rest, however, with the shoe unlockedfrom the jack, with the foxing-applying tool withdrawn from the shoe, and with the shoe at right angles to the position shown in Fig. 1 and not tipped up.

In the operation of the machine the operator presents a shoe to the jack, holds it in place and steps upon a treadle, whereupon the following movements take place: The shoe is locked rigidly to the jack, the foxing-applying tool is moved into contact with the shoe, and the jack begins what will be termed its forward movement. The forward movement of the jack causes the foxing area of the shoe to be traversed by the tool from the point at which the tool first presses the leading end of the foxing against the shoe around the shoe and back to a point a little beyond the starting point so that the ends of the foxing will overlap somewhat. The foxing-applying operation is now complete, but the parts must be returned to their initial positions. To this end, the tool is withdrawn from the shoe, and the movement of the jack is reversed. This backward movement of the jack continues until the shoe is returned to its initial position when it stops, and the shoe is unlocked. Thus the operator has only to present a shoe tothe jack and to depress the treadle, whereupon the shoe is locked in place, moved past the tool, returned to initial position, unlocked and brought to rest. The machine may be adjusted to cause the laying of the foxing to begin at diiferent localities on the foxing area, but commonly it is adjusted to cause the laying to begin at a point near the heel end of the shoe such as that indicated by the position of the tool 3| in Fig. 1a.

Figs. 1a to 1 each show a shoe in plan and elevation in process of being operated upon. In the present machine, the shoe is rocked up on its toe and held in this position during the application of foxing around the toe portion as shown in elevation in Figs. 1c and 1d. In the foxing-cementing machine of my prior application there was no rocking of the shoe. Disregarding, for the present, this rocking movement and assuming that the shoe Hill has been locked to the jack and that the tool (herein shown as the foxing-applying tool 3|) has brought the leading end of the foxing into contact with the foxing area of the shoe at the point indicated in Fig. 1a, the jack begins its forward movement to impart forward movement to the shoe, various stages of said forward movement being shown in plan in Figs. la to 1 The shoe first swings counterclockwise about its heel end to the position shown in Fig. 1b; it then moves straight to the left until it reaches the position shown in Fig. 10. It then swings 180 counterclockwise about its toe end to the position shown in Fig. 1d. It then moves straight to the left through the position shown in Fig. 1e and is rotated counterclockwise about its heel end to the position shown in Fig. l The foxing has thus been laid all around the shoe and has been overlapped around the heel portion. The forward movement of the shoe is now complete. The tool is withdrawn from the shoe; the jack reverses its movement, and the shoe is swung clockwise about its heel end until it reaches the position shown in Fig. la when it comes to rest. The overlap of the foxing may be controlled by certain adjusting mechanism so that it will be greater or less than that shown or even in such manner that there is a gap between the ends of the foxing; and the position of the shoe at which the laying begins may also be varied so that the overlap may be located where desired.

The jack The jack, its mounting and its manner of movement are in general like the jack, the mounting and the manner of movement of the machine of the application except that in the present construction the jack is not only actuated as a whole to cause the shoe to move in the manner described above but is provided with improved shoelooking or shoe-holding mechanism and with mechanism for rocking or tilting the shoe up on its toe portion, as shown in Fig. 1, when the foxing is being laid about the toe portion of the shoe. Before proceeding to describe these new features,

the construction of the jack which is the same or substantially the same as that of the jack of the machine of the application will be described. The base of the jack (Fig. 2) is a rigid elongated boxlike structure open at the top and bottom and having side walls 33 each of which is provided D with a straight rack in the form of two rows of teeth 35 with one row spaced above the other. Only the two upper rows appear in Fig. 2, but portions of both rows appear in Fig. 4. The two rows of teeth on one side wall 33 thus form in 1 effect a single straight rack; and the two rows of teeth on the opposite wall 33 form another straight rack. Between the side walls at the extreme toe end of the jack is a block 31 fastened in place by screws, one of which is shown at 39, 1

said block having a depending portion to support part of the mechanism which locks the shoe in place as will be described later. Between the side walls at the rear end of the jack is a second block 4| (Figs. 3 and 6) having ribs which extend into suitably shaped grooves formed in the side walls 33 and held firmly in place by set screws 36, said block 4| also having a depending portion to support part of the shoe-locking mechanism. Rigidly fastened to the heel end of the jack (Fig. 2) is a guide member 43 which is adapted, together with another similar but adjustable guide member 44 near the toe end of the jack, to be held at times in contact with a straight guide rail 45 carried by the head of the machine and thus to guide thejack in its movement.

The effective portion of the guide member 43 is U-shaped, the outline of the curved end of this member, inside and outside, being semi-circles.

Upon the U-shaped wall of this block is formed a rack the teeth 47 of which have the same pitch as the teeth of the straight racks on the side walls 33 of the base and form a continuation of these straight racks, certain teeth at the ends of the U-shaped rack extending between the two rows of teeth which constitute a straight rack on each of the walls 33. The toe end guide member 44, which is like the heel end guide member 43, is mounted near the toe end of the jack for adjustment lengthwise of the jack. Located in spaced relation beneath the guide member 44 (Fig. 4) is a block 49 which has a sliding tongueand-groove connection with the side walls 33 and is rigidly fastened to the guide member 44 so as to be adjustable with it by two plates 5| and screws 53 (Figs. 5 and 6). .The eifective portion of the toe guide member 44 is U-shaped like the heel guide member 43; and the block 49, like the block 4|, has on its inner U-shaped wall a U- shaped rack 55. The two straight racks 35 with the two U-shaped racks thus form an endless rack having straight sides and semi-circular ends, the pitch of the teeth of this endless rack being the same throughout so that, when the rack is engaged and driven by a pinion rotated at constant velocity, the part of the shoe being operated upon travels at a constant linear velocity past the foxing-applying tool. The toe end guide member 44 is adiustably fastened to the base of the jack by a key which may be slid between the teeth on the straight racks 35, the lower portion of this key being shown at 56 (Figs. 5 and 6). Thus, whatever may be the position of the adjustable toe guide member 44, there is always provided on the jack an endless rack having two straight parallel sides and two semi-circular ends.

The jack is suspended from the head C (Fig. 1) of the machine in such manner that it is always free, when permitted to do so, either to slide in the direction of its length or to rotate about the center of one or the other of the curved outer faces of the guide members 43, 44 and is driven, through the endless rack, by a pinion 5'! (Fig. 2) which holds the guide member 43 or the guide member 44 or both against the guide rail. Formed in the side walls 33 (Fig. 4) are two long guide grooves into which enter respectively two flanges formed on opposite sides of a rectangular plate 59 which is integral with a sleeve 6! (Fig. 2) rotatably mounted on a depending post 53. The post is rigid with the head C (Fig. 1) of the machine and extends obliquely downward, the sleeve $5! and its integral plate 59 being held from sliding off from the bottom of the post by a plate, not shown, fastened to the bottom of the post. With this construction, the jack may slide lengthwise of the plate 59; and the jack, the plate and the sleeve may rotate as a whole about the post 03. Extending downward through the post is a hollow shaft eccentric to the post having fast to its lower end the pinion 51 which meshes with the teeth of the endless rack. This hollow shaft (Fig. 1) has fast to its upper end a beveled gear 61 meshing with a small bevel gear 69 on the upper end of an upright shaft H which is rotated first in one direction and then in the other to impart, first a forward movement, and then a reverse movement to the jack, in the manner which has been described, and is finally brought to rest. Slidably mounted in a bore in the hollow shaft 55 is a push rod 13 which controls the mechanism for locking the shoe to the jack. The upper end of this rod (Fig. 1) is pivoted to a lever 15 which is swung first up and then down at the proper time. This rod is pushed down when the machine comes to rest and is held down until the operator has removed a shoe which has been operated upon, presented a new shoe to the jack and depressed the treadle of the machine, whereupon the rod is pulled up to cause the shoe to be locked to the jack.

Referring again to Fig. 2, the jack is shown approximately in the position it occupies when the shoe is in the position shown in Figs. 1c and 6. The foxing has been laid around the heel end of the shoe, along one side thereof, around the toe portion and partly along the other side. The jack is moving to the left and will continue so to move until the inner semi-cylindrical wall of the heel guide member 43 fits around the sleeve 6|, whereupon it will rotate counterclockwise through until the shoe is in the position shown in Fig. 1 At that position the laying of the foxing will have been completed, the foxing-applying tool will be withdrawn, and the rotation of the pinion 57 will be reversed to swing the jack clockwise through 180 to bring the shoe back into its initial position (Fig. lot). When the jack starts its movement, the semi-cylindrical inner face of the heel guide member 43 is in engagement with the sleeve El, and the shoe is in the position shown in Fig. 1a. Disregarding for the moment the tilting of the shoe and assuming that rotation in the direction shown has been imparted to the pinion 51, the jack first swings counterclockwise about the center of curvature of the heel guide member 43 through 180 until the toe guide member 44 strikes the guide rail 45. During this movement the shoe reaches the position shown in Fig. 1b. The jack then moves straight to the left until the semi-cylindrical face of the toe guide member 44 fits around the sleeve 6i. The shoe is then in the position shown in Fig. 1c. The jack then swings counterclockwise about the center of curvature of the toe guide member 44 to bring the shoe into the position shown in Fig. 1d. The jack then moves straight to the left carrying the shoe through the position shown in Fig. 1e until the heel guide member 43 fits around the sleeve 6| again, whereupon the jack swings counterclockwise through 180 to bring the shoe into the position shown in Fig. 11. At that point the foXing-applying tool is withdrawn, and the direction of rotation of the pinion 51 is reversed to swing the jack clockwise about its heel end until it returns the shoe to the position shown in Fig. la and comes to rest. The machine as thus far described, together with the jack and the mechanism for operating it, with the exceptions which have been noted, are or may be the same as the corresponding parts of the machine of my prior application and will not be further described, reference being made to that application for details of construction.

As has been explained, the present jack is provided with improved shoe-locking mechanism and with mechanism for tilting the shoe up on its toe end when the toe portion of the foxing area is being operated upon; and this construction will now be described in detail. Referring to Fig. 6, a generally rectangular supporting frame 0| has a downturned rear end 50! having fastened to it an abutment I03 shaped to engage the rear of the shoe, said abutment having a concave face lined with felt or some similar substance to prevent marring of the shoe. A screw bolt I05, which passes through a slot I0? (Fig. 3) in the downturned end [Ol and is threaded into the abutment I03, permits vertical adjustment of the abutment. In Fig. 4, this frame i9! is shown in cross-section. It is open at the top and bottom, and at its ends, below the level of the lowest portion shown in that figure, it has integral crosspieces. Referring again to Fig. 6, one of these cross-pieces has the downturned end EQI and the other a depending portion MW at the forward end of the frame. The last 200 (Fig. 6) is of the type used in rubber shoe factories in which the shoes are placed in an oven and vulcanized after they have otherwise been finished. The slot I09 in this hollow last will be termed a last-pin-hole, since it serves the purpose of the usual last-pin hole in a wooden last used 7 its other end to the bar II1.

in'an ordinary shoe factory. Into this hole extends a member III which will be termed a last-pin. This member is fiat and has oppositely facing teeth II3 adapted to engage the opposite end walls of the last-pin hole when the shoe has been presented with the last-pin in the hole, and the last-pin has been swung about its pivot I15. When the parts are in the position shown, the pin is cramped in the hole and the shoe is locked firmly in position by the cramping of the last-pin in the hole and by reason of the fact that the rear end of the shoe is pressed against the abutment I03. The last-pin is pivoted about a small horizontal rod II5 mounted in one end of a long bar or link II1 which is U-shaped in cross-section as shown in Fig. 4, said bar having adjustably fastened by a screw bolt II9 to its under side an inclined holder I2 I (Fig. 6) in which is adjustably fastened by a screw bolt I23 a stem I25 to the lower end of which is pivoted a toe rest I21 provided with a felt lining. The last-pin III is slidably adjustable on the small rod II5 about which it is pivoted and is held in position lengthwise of the rod by a spring-pressed latch I29 which may be engaged between any two of a row of teeth I3I (Fig. 8). In this figure are shown the leaf spring I33 which carries the latch at one end and the screw I35 which fastens the spring at Returning to Fig. 6, the bar II1, most of which is located in the opening in the frame I9I, is movable lengthwise and is there shown in its right-hand position. If it is moved to the left it will move the toe rest I21 to the left and will swing the last-pin II I counterclockwise whereupon the shoe will be released. The bar I I1 is pivoted at its left-hand end at I31 to the spaced depending arms of a bell-crank lever I39 the hub of which is rotatable on a pin I4I carried by upstanding spaced lugs on the frame IOI. The right-hand end of the bar I I1 is pivoted at I43 to the depending spaced arms of a lever I45, which is a second bell-crank lever, the hub of the lever I 45 being rotatable on a pin I41 carried by upstanding lugs on the rear end of the frame IIII. The bar II1 may thus be swung about the axes of the pins MI, I41 and thus be moved to the right to lock the shoe in the jack, or to the left to unlock the shoe. It is urged at all times into its right-hand position by a torsion spring I49 coiled about the pin MI, a stop pin 59I carried at the right-hand end of the frame I9I being provided to limit the swinging movement of the bell-crank lever I45 to the right so that, in case the shoe-clamping mechanism is for any reason operated without presenting a shoe to the jack, the bell-crank lever I 45 will be prevented from swinging very far. The torsion spring I49 is best shown in Fig. 7. The pin MI has fast to it a collar I58 and loose upon it a collar I53, the torsion spring I49 having one end extending into a hole in the fast collar I5I and the other end extending through a hole in the loose collar I53 and into a hole in one of the two upper arms of the bell-crank lever I 39. The pin is fastened to the frame IIlI by a set screw I55. After the set screw has been loosened, the pin I4! may be turned to vary the tension of the spring I49. Referring again to Fig. 6, the upper arms of the bell-crank levers I39, I45 are connected by a long link I51 and pivots I59, ISI so that, if this link is pushed down at any time, the bellcrank levers will swing counterclockwise to move the bar II1 to the left so as to unlock the shoe.

Referring to Fig. 4'the cross-sectional U-shape of the bar H1 and the link I51 will be seen. Referring to Fig. 7, it will be seen that the ends of the link I51 extend respectively into the spaces between the upper arms of the bell-crank levers I39, I45 and that the hubs of these .two bellcrank levers are located between the sides of the frame IIII.

Returning again to Fig. 6, the frame IIII, with all the parts just described as being mounted upon it, is pivotally suspended in a manner presently to be described at the lower ends of two links I63, one of which is shown in Fig. 6 and both of which are shown in Fig. 4, so that'the frame IOI may be tilted to rock or tilt the shoe up on its toe portion, as shown in Fig. 5, at the proper times. In order to steady the frame IIJI when such tilting movement is imparted to it, it is pivoted at its toe end at I65 to the forked end of a link I61, the other end of the link carrying a rod I69 to which is pivoted the lower end of a link I1I, the upper end of this link being forked and pivoted on a rod I13 carried by the block 31 which is fastened between the toe ends of the side walls 33 of the jack. The depending portion II]! at the heel end of the frame I 9! is pivoted at I15 to the forked lower end of a link I11 the. upper end of which is pivoted at I19 to the lower end of a link I8I, the upper forked end of which is pivoted at I83 to a lug depending from the block M which is fastened between the heel end of the side walls 33 of the jack. As has been stated, the purpose of the links I91, I1I at the toe end of the frame I9I and the links I11, I8I at the heel end is merely to steady the frame IOI and thus to insure that it shall not rock sidewise.

This frame, as has been stated, is suspended at the lower ends of the two links I63 for lengthwise rocking movement. These two links are fastened together by a cross-bolt I54 and at their upper ends are pivoted at I85 respectively to the plates 5I which are rigid with the toe end guide member 44. This member 44, it will be recalled, is adjustable lengthwise of the jack to provide for shoes of different lengths; and, when this member is adjusted, the pivotal connections of the lower ends of the links I53 with the frame IEJI must also be adjusted so that a proper rocking movement will be imparted to each shoe whatever its length. The lower ends of the links, therefore, are not pivoted directly to the frame IIiI. Instead, they are pivoted about alined rods I91 fastened by set screws I88 in the depending arms of a bridge member I89 which spans the frame IIII and is adjustable along it, said rods having mounted on their inner ends blocks I9I (Fig. 4) which are received in tracks formed in the outer faces of the sides of the frame I III. The bridge member I89 has pivoted to it about alined pivots I93 (Fig. 6) a pawl I95 having two alined teeth which are adapted to enter the alined spaces between the teeth of two racks I91 (see also Fig. '1) formed on the upper surfaces of the sides of the frame IIII, a compression spring I99 normally holding the pawl operative as shown. This construction thus permits the bridge I89 to be adjusted along the frame I III when the toe end guide member 44 is adjusted lengthwise of the jack to provide for shoes of different lengths.

In Fig. 6 the shoe is locked to the jack, and it has been explained that it may be unlocked by pushing down the link I51 to cause the bellcrank levers I39, I45 to move the bar II1 to the left. This pushing down of the link I51 is caused by pushing down a rod 2II (see also Fig. 4) which is freely slidable through the core of a heavy yoke-link 203, the hollow core having threaded through its wall a screw 2% the stem of which extends into a slot in the rod 2IlI to prevent the rod from turning. The upper and lower ends of the rod 2OI are sharpened to provide thin edges, the lower edge engaging the upper surface of the link I51 and the upper edge engaging the under surface of a link 269 so that, when the link 209 is pushed down, in a manner presently to be described, the link I51 will be pushed down to release the shoe. The heavy yoke-link 203 (Fig. 6) carries at its upper end a pivot rod 2II which extends through bores in the plates 5I. At its lower end it is rotatably mounted on two alined studs 2I3 which are carried by the bridge member I89 and are located in the same tracks in the frame ill! in which the blocks I9I are located. The link 259, which is pushed down to exert a downward push through the rod ZEII to release the shoe, is pivoted at one end at 2I5 (Fig. 6) to the upper arm of a bell-crank lever 2II which is pivoted to the block GI at 2 I9. The other end of the link 209 is pivoted at 22I to the upper end of a bell-crank lever 223 which is pivoted at 225 between the outer ends of lugs which are integral with the block 31. A long link 22? is pivoted at its right-hand end to the lower arm of the bell-crank lever 2I'I and at its left-hand end to the lower arm of the bell-crank lever 223, the purpose of this link 221 being merely to prevent the link 269 from changing its inclination when it is pushed down. The link 239 is pushed down by the push rod i3 (Figs. 1 and 3) at the end of the operation on the shoe, as has been described above, to release the shoe. It is pulled up when the operator has presented another shoe and has stepped upon the treadle, the mechanism for operating the push rod I3 being the same as in the machine of my prior application and not being described in detail herein.

It has been explained above that the shoe is rocked up on its toe portion and held in this position, as shown in Fig. 5, while the foxing is being laid around the toe portion, the reason for providing this construction being to cause the foxing to be laid smoothly without wrinkles about the toe portion of the shoe. By reference to Fig. 10 it will be seen that the shoe, before being rocked up on its toe, rests at its ball line and heel upon the fiat-topped bottom-rest 32, the shoe being always in this position when the foxing is being applied at any locality between the ball line and the heel end of the shoe. The result, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, is that the upper edge of the applied foxing from the heel end of the shoe to about the ball line is straight and does not follow the contour of the lower edge of the shoe. Around the toe portion of the shoe, however, the foxing is laid with its upper edge corresponding to the contour of the lower edge of the shoe; and, to cause the foxing to be applied thus around the toe portion of the shoe, the shoe is gradually rocked up into the position shown in Fig. 5 and then gradually rocked down again into the position shown in Fig. 6. Referring now to Figs. 1b, 1c, and 111, it will be seen that the shoe is rocked up on its toe portion while the shoe is moving heel foremost and that it is held rocked up while the shoe is being swung through around its toe end. The position shown in Fig. 5 corresponds to that shown in Fig. 1d, the shoe having been rocked up on its toe portion previously while moving to the left, heel foremost, as indicated in Figs. 1b and 10. This rocking of the shoe is caused by swinging the links I63 from the position shown in Fig. 6 to that shown in Fig. 5; and the shoe is rocked back into its initial position by swinging the links I63 from the position shown in Fig. 5 to that shown in Fig. 6. It should be noted that Fig. 6 shows the shoe after it has passed the position shown in Fig. 5, and corresponds to the position shown in Fig. 1c.

The swinging of the links I63 to rock the shoe up on its toe portion is caused automatically by the sliding movement of the jack while the jack is moving the shoe heel foremost; and the returning of the shoe to initial position results from the sliding movement of the jack while it is moving the shoe toe foremost. To this end, two bellcrank levers, one of which is shown at 226 in Figs. 5 and 6, are pivoted about alined pivots, one of which is shown at 23 I, to the plates 5I which are rigid with the guide member 44, said levers being connected by links, one of which is shown at 233, to the links I63. Tension springs 235 connect the lower arms of these bell-crank levers 229 with pins 23'! driven into the hubs of the links I63. The tension springs 235 tend at all times to rock the bell-crank levers 229 into and hold them in the position shown in Fig. 6. It will be noted that each of the short links 233 and the horizontal arm of the bell-crank lever to which it is pivotally connected form a toggle of which the pivotal connection is the knuckle. The springs 235 act to pull these toggles down past their dead centers until the short links 233 contact with stop pins, one of which is shown at 233 carried respectively by the links I53. The upper arms of the bellcrank levers 229 are pivoted about alined pivots 23s respectively to one of the ends of two arms 2 1i. The other ends of these arms 2M are pivoted about alined studs 243 carried at opposite downturned ends of a crossbar 245, the arms being held on the studs by nuts 241. The cross-bar 245 extends across the tops of the two side walls 33 and is slidable longitudinally along these walls. Fastened to the cross-bar 245 near its opposite ends are two slide bars 249 which are slidably mounted in guideways in the plates 5| and act to steady the cross-bar 245 in its sliding movement.

The cross-bar 245 has a depending split lug near its middle through which is threaded the stem of an abutment 25I (Fig. 2) held in adjusted position by a pinch-bolt 252, said abutment being adapted at times to engage one end of the rectangular plate 59 which is integral with the sleeve GI and upon which the jack slides. This plate, it will be recalled, rotates when the jack rotates but is stationary when the jack is moving lengthwise; and when, with the jack moving lengthwise and the shoe moving heel foremost as shown in Fig. 1b, the abutment 25! contacts with the end of the plate 53 the movement of the cross-bar 245 with the jack is arrested while the jack continues its movement to the left. The efiect of this is to exert a pull through the links 2 on the bell-crank levers 229 to swing the links I63 into the position shown in Fig. 5. It should be remembered, however, that the toe end of the shoe at this time was pointed to the right and that the shoe was moving heel foremost to the left. This swinging of the links I63, due to the manner in which the link 203 connects the plate 5| with the bridge member I89, causes the shoe to rock approximately about the center of longitudinal curvature of the toe portion of the bottom of the shoe in such manner that, as the shoe moves bodily past the foxing-applying roll, the axis of that roll is maintained substantially perpendicular to the upper edge of the foxing area. The end of the plate 59 remains in contact with the abutment 25I while the shoe is swung around the toe portion from the position shown in Fig. 10 to that shown in Fig. 1d. The jack now moves to the left, the springs 235 holding the abutment in contact with the plate 59 for an interval during which the links I63 are swung back into their initial position in which they are substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the shoe. The shoe has then been rocked back to initial position. Further movement of the jack to the left causes the abutment 25! to recede from the plate 59 as shown in Fig. 6.

The entire movements of the shoe as they take place successively will now be described. The shoe is presented to the jack with the last-pin III (Fig. 6) in the last-pin hole and the bottom of. the shoe resting at the ball line and at the heel upon the flat bottom-rest 32. The operator then depresses a treadle whereupon the push rod 13 is lifted to permit the coiled spring I49 (Figs. 6, 7) to move the bar I I! to the right thereby causing the last-pin I I I to be swung clockwise and the heel of the shoe to be pushed against the abutment I03. The foxing-applying tool 3| (Fig. 1) is moved to press the leading end of the foxing strip into contact with the foxing area of the shoe at the position indicated in Fig. 1a, and the shaft II (Fig. 1) starts its forward movement which rotates the pinion 5! (Fig. 2) in the direction indicated by the arrow. Referring now to Figs. 1a to If, the shoe starts its movement from the position shown in Fig. la with the foxing-applying tool 3| pressing the leading end of the foxing strip into engagement with the foxing area of the shoe at about the heel-breast line, the shoe being in the position shown in plan and in elevation in that figure. The shoe swings through 180 counterclockwise to the position shown in Fig. 1b where the first portion of the foxing which has been applied is indicated at 300. The shoe then moves to the left and presently is rocked up on its toe portion (Fig. It then swings through 180 counterclockwise about its toe end until it reaches the position shown in Fig. 111, this being the same position shown in Fig. 5. It then moves to the left and passes through the position shown in Fig. 16, which is the same position shown in Fig. 6 in which the shoe has been rocked back into its initial position. After the shoe has been moved to the left until the foxing-applying tool 3I is located at about the heel-breast line, it swings through 180 clockwise about its heel end into the position shown in Fig. 1]. This is the end of the forward movement of the jack, the foxing having been laid all around the shoe and overlapped around the heel end. The foxing-applying tool is now withdrawn from the shoe, and the direction of rotation of the upright shaft 'II (Fig. 1) is reversed to impart reverse movement to the jack. This reverse movement is a clockwise rotation through 180 and returns the shoe to the position shown in Fig. 1a whereupon the movement ceases, and the push rod 13 (Fig. 1) is pushed down to unlock the shoe. Referring to Fig. 6, this unlocking is accomplished when the push rod I3 (not shown in that figure) pushes down the link 209, said link pushing down the rod 23I and causing the rod to push down the link I51 thereby moving the bar II! to the left. This relieves the pressure of the 7 heel end of. the shoe against the abutment I03 and swings the last-pin I II to free the teeth II3 from engagement with the last-pin hole.

By providing an abutment I03 which is always in the same position when the machine is at rest and occupies a fixed position so far as the shoeholding means is concerned, and by causing the shoe to be clamped between this relatively fixed abutment and the movable last-pin III, the rear ends of all shoes operated upon are held in the same position initially, and subsequently move through the same path, a construction which greatly facilitates the accuracy with which the foxing may be laid. It should be noted that the clamping means, which is suspended from the base of the jack in the manner described, engages the upper portion of the lasted shoe in such manner as to leave an unobstructed space about its lower portion and permits the shoe to be presented to the clamping means and the toe-rest by a simple upward movement. It should also be noted that although the machine is provided with a foxing-laying tool which will be described in detail below, the structure thus far described is capable of use with other tools or devices for operating upon or with respect to the lower portion of a shoe.

The fearing-applying mechanism The foxing-applying tool, as has been stated, is mounted for swinging movement toward and from the shoe, for movement heightwise of the shoe and for rocking movement in a plane substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the shoe so as to follow the contour of the foxing area as the shoe is moved past it, the mounting of the tool being similar in many respects to the mounting of the cement-applying tool of my prior application. The tool of the present invention is a combined foxing-applying and foxingindenting tool comprising (Fig. 18) a deformable rubber roll fast to a spindle, there being above the roll and also fast to the spindle a rigid indenting wheel 3|. Thus, in the operation of the machine, the wheel indents the upper edge of the foxing, and the rubber roll is deformed by being pressed against the shoe; and that portion of its periphery which is at any given moment operative assumes a contour corresponding to the contour of the foxing area of the shoe at the locality being operated upon. Referring first to Figs. 9 and 10, the foxing-applying and indenting tool 3| hereinafter referred to for convenience as the foxing-applying tool is shown as occupying one of its positions in which it is applying foxing to a shoe, a portion of the shoe being indicated in dot-and-dash lines in Fig. 10. The tool has. been swung toward the observer, as viewed in this figure, to bring it into contact with the shoe and. will be swung away from the observer to withdraw. it from the shoe at the end of the foxing-applying operation. As shown, it is held in position to press the foxing against the foxing area of the shoe by mechanism including a tension spring later to be described, but is free to move widthwis e of the shoe in opposition to the force of that spring. The bottom of theshoe is in contact with the bottom-rest 32; and this rest, with which the tool moves in unison heightwise of the shoe, is

yieldingly held against the bottom of the shoe by mechanism including certain springs also to be, described later. ing movement in a path the plane of which is substantially normal to the longitudinal axis of the shoe independently of the bottom-rest and is I The tool is also capable of rockacted upon by mechanism including a third spring which permits it to assume various angular positions.

In the operation of the machine a portion of a strip of foxing is always between the operative face of the foxing-applying tool 3| and the shoe and is being pressed by the tool against the shoe. In order, however, to promote brevity in the following description of the mounting and movements of the foxing-applying tool, mention of the foxing will in most cases be omitted and the tool described as though it pressed directly against the shoe.

The foXing-applying tool 3|, with its narrow indenting wheel 3|, is carried at the outer end of a hollow curved tool-carrying arm 30 the inner end or" which is rotatably mounted in a suitable bearing in the hub portion of a work arm 303. Referring to Fig. 13, the work-arm 303 is U-shaped in cross-section, and between the arms of the U is a web 305 having a cylindrical recess to receive a ball bearing 301 which is held in the recess by a thin ring 338 fastened to the web. Mounted for rotary movement in the ball bearing is one end of a sleeve 3! i held from longitudinal movement by a flange on the sleeve and a nut 303 threaded on the end of the sleeve. Over the projecting portion of the sleeve the inner split end of the tool-carrying arm 30| fits and is clamped to the sleeve by a pinch screw 3|3. The axis of rotation of the sleeve 3| I, and consequently of the tool-carrying arm 30|, intersects (Fig. 10) the upper edge of the indenting wheel 3| at the 10- cality in which said edge engages the foxing. This indenting wheel, during the operation of the machine, runs along the upper edge of the foxing and, consequently, the rocking movement of the foxing-applying tool in a path the plane of which is transverse to the longitudinal axis of the shoe takes place about the upper edge of the foxing. Formed on the periphery of the tool-carrying arm 30| are two flanges 3!! (Figs. 9 and 10) to provide a groove in which runs a small cable 3|6 one end of which is fastened to the tool-carrying arm 30| and the other end of which passes around a small pulley 3|8 carried by the work-arm 303 and is fast to one end of a tension spring 323 the other end of which is fastened to the work-arm. By this mechanism the tool-carrying arm 30| is urged at all times to rock about its horizontal axis which, it will be recalled, passes through the shoe-contacting point on the upper edge of the small indenting wheel 3|. This cable 3|6 tends always to rock the foXing-applying tool in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 17. This figure shows the tool in full lines in one of the various angular positions it occupies during the laying of the foxing on a shoe I held by the moving jack, and in dotted lines shows the tool in the angular position it always occupies when it is first swung widthwise of the shoe into contact with the shoe. Fig. 16 shows the attachment of one end of the cable 3|6 to a pin 322 carried by the tool-carrying arm 30|. In this figure the parts are in positions corresponding to the full-line position of the foxing-applying tool in Fig. 1'7, at which time the yielding pull of the cable 3|6 has rotated the tool 3| into the position shown.

It has been stated that, when the foxing-applying tool 3| is first moved into contact with a shoe, it is always in the angular position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 17 with its indenting wheel only in operative position. To permit the tool to be moved into this angular position and held there for a time, the tool-carrying arm 30| (Fig. 16) has a lug 324 to which is fastened a small rod 326 having rotatably mounted thereon a roll 328 which lies in the path of a rotatable finger 338, to be described later. This finger is rotated clockwise, as viewed in Fig. 16 in a manner to be described later, when the tool-carrying arm 30| is swung away from the shoe at the end of a foxing-apply ing operation, to move the roll 328 into a position indicated by the dotted-line position of that roll in Fig. 16 and to hold the roll in that position until the foxing-applying tool 3| has been moved back into contact with the next shoe, whereupon the finger 330 is swung back into the position shown so as to permit the tool 3| to be swung clockwise (Fig. 17) so as to press the foxing against the foxing area of the shoe. With this construction and mode of operation, the indenting wheel first sticks the upper edge of the leading end of the foxing to the shoe, and then the roll swings to I stick the body portion of the leading end of the foxing to the shoe. The leading end of the foxing is thus accurately located'on the foxing area and pressed smoothly into place before the shoe starts its forward movement.

The work-arm 303 (Figs. 9 and with respect to which the tool-carrying arm is capable of rocking movement in the manner which has been described, is mounted for swinging movement up and down-that is, heightwise of the shoe-and for swinging movement toward and from the shoe-that is, widthwise of the shoe. To permit the swinging movement heightwise of the shoe the U-shaped hub of the Work-arm 303 (Fig.

11) is mounted for swinging movement about alined trunnions 3H which are received in ball bearings 3|9 carried by the hub of the work-arm, said trunnions being integral with and projecting from cylindrical blocks 32| which are received in bores formed in opposite walls of a boxlike carrier 323 having an open side through which the work-arm 303 projects. The cylindrical blocks 32| have integral with their outer ends circular plates which are fastened to the carrier 323 by screws 325. Tension springs 321 (Figs. 9 and 10), fastened at one of their ends to a pin 329 in the tail of the work-arm 303 and at their other ends to a pin 33| rigid with the carrier 323, tend at all times to swing the work-arm, and with it the tool-carrying arm 30L upwardly as viewed in Fig. 10 so as to hold the bottom-rest 32 always against the bottom of the shoe. The springs also permit the work-arm to be swung down by pressure of the bottom of the shoe against the bottom-rest. The carrier 323 (Fig. 14) is rigidly fastened by screws to a flange 333 integral with the upper end of a shaft 333 rotatably mounted in suitable hearings in the casting B, said shaft having at its lower end (Fig. 10) a split collar 335 adjustably fastened to the shaft by a pinch screw 331. A long tension spring 33?, fast at one end to an arm 336 (Fig. 11) on the collar and at the other end to the casting B, tends at all times to rotate the shaft 333 in a direction to swing the work-arm 303 and the tool-carrying arm 33! toward the shoe (toward the observer as viewed in Fig. 10). The spring 331 causes the foXing-applying tool to exert a substantially uniform pressure upon the foxing as it is being laid; and, since the foxing area of the shoe travels past the tool at a substantially uniform linear velocity, substantially the same pressure for the same length of time is exerted upon the foxing throughout the foXing-laying operation. The shaft 333 (Fig. 10) is rotatable in two ball bearings 338 located respectively near the bottom and near the top of the shaft, both bearings being mounted in a sleeve 339 which is made in two parts detachably connected by a tongue-and-groove connection as shown in Fig. 14. The sleeve 333 has at its top a head 339' to receive the upper ball bearing 338 and has a lug through which is threaded a stop screw 34! one end of which is adapted to contact at times (when the arms 363, 33! are in their withdrawn, inoperative positions) with a stop 343 pivoted at 345 to a block 346 having integral with it a pin which is driven into the under side of the carrier 323. The flange 333 at the upper end of the shaft 333 and the collar 333 (Fig. at the bottom of the shaft hold the shaft from endwise movement and the bearings 333 in place.

In order to steady the tool-carrying arm 30! in its rotary movement about its horizontal axis, which as has been explained is tangent to the periphery of the indenting wheel 3! (Fig. 10), a construction like that which steadies the toolcarrying arm of the machine of my prior application is provided. This mechanism comprises rolls, one of which is shown at 346', carried at the outer end of the tool-carrying arm 30! and running in a segmental cam track formed in a segmental member 34! (see also Fig. 1) which is fastened by bolts 343 to an upstanding flange integral with the outer end of the work-arm 303, the center of curvature of the cam track lying in the axis of rotation of the arm 3!]! The bottomrest 32 (Figs. 9 and 10), which comprises a flat plate and a narrow roller along one edge thereof, is mounted on a segmental carrier 35! held in place for rocking movement about the center of curvature of the segment by four grooved rolls 353 mounted in a bracket 355 adjustably fastened to the work-arm 333 by a cap screw 35'! which passes through a slot in th bracket and is threaded into the arm. The segmental carrier 35! is free to rock in either direction about its center of curvature, but this movement is limited by two walls 359 of a recess in its lower edge, either of which may contact with the head of the screw 351. The purpose of this mounting is to permit the bottom-rest to be held firmly against the bottom of a shoe and to rock as may be necessary.

As has been stated, the parts of the machine, as shown in Figs. 9 and 10, are in one of their positions in which the shoe is being operated upon. Prior to their reaching these positions the work-arm 333, together with the tool-carrying arm 30! was swung, toward the observer as viewed in Fig. 10, to cause the bottom-rest 32 to contact with the bottom of the shoe and the foxing-applying tool 3! to press the leading end of a strip of foxing into contact with the shoe, by a half-revolution of a gear 36!. This gear is similar to the corresponding gear in the machine of my prior application and has imparted to it intermittently, by the same mechanism as that of the machine of my prior application, two halfrevolutions. Part of this mechanism is the elongated gear 362 shown in Fig. 1. The gear 36! has cut in its lower face a cam track to receive a roll carried at one end of a lever 363, the other end of which is integral with the lower section of the two-part sleeve 339. When the parts come to rest after the work-arm 333 has been swung out into inoperative position (away from the observer as vieW-ed in Fig. 10) the stop screw 34! is in contact with the stop 343 (see also Fig. 14) and the work-arm 363 is held out against the force of the tension spring 331. After the shoe with the foxing laid upon it has been removed from the jack and a new shoe presented to the jack, the operator depresses a treadle, as has been described above, to start the machine. The shoe is automatically clamped to the jack and the first half-revolution is imparted to the gear 36!. This turns the sleeve 339 counterclockwise, as viewed in Fig. 9, and thus tends to move the stop screw 34! away from the stop 343. However, the stop is held in contact with this screw by the spring 337' (Fig. 10) and thus follows the screw 34i until the foxing-applying tool strikes the shoe. The sleeve 339 continues its rotation somewhat farther so that the stop screw moves away from the stop 333 until it reaches some such position as shown in Figs. 10 and 14. The foxingapplyintool 34 is now held in contact with the foxing area of the shoe by the spring 33'! and can move widthwise of the shoe since the spring 33?" permits such movement. The shoe is now moved by the jack in the manner which has been described above to present its foXing area progressively to the tool 3! until the foxing-laying 0-peration is completed, whereupon the arms 303, 33! are swung away from the shoe by a second half-revolution of the gear 36!. This second half-revolution rotates the sleeve 339 clockwise as viewed in Fig. 9, and presently the screw 34! encounters the stop 343, swings the carrier 323 until the tool 3! and the bottom-rest 32 are in inoperative position remote from the shoe, and holds the carrier and the arms in these positions as the machine comes to rest. The purpose of pivoting the stop 343 to the block 346 (Figs. 14 and 15) is to permit the stopto be swung out of the way when desired. For example, the machine comes to rest with the arms 33!, 333 swung out away from the shoe; but it is desirable to have these arms swung in to some extent when the leading end of a new strip or" foxing is being led from a reel around certain guide rolls (all of which will be described later) and the foxingapplying roll after a previous strip has all been used. At such times the operator pushes back the arm 363 a little farther to free the stop 343 from the end of the screw 34i, swings the stop into inoperative position about its pivot 345 and releases the arm, whereupon the arm swings in somewhat. After the end of the new strip of foxing has been put in place, the arm 333 is pulled out, the stop 343 swung back into operative position, and the arm released.

It has been explained above (Figs. 16 and 17) that, after the arms 33!, 333 have been swung away from the shoe at the end of a foxing-applying operation and before they have been swung back again to cause the foxing-applying tool 3! and the bottom-rest 32 toengage another shoe, the foxing-applying tool is swung into the dotted-line angular position shown in Fig. 17 and held in that position until the indenting wheel 3! forces the upper edge of the foxing against the shoe to stick said upper edge to the upper edge of the foxing area, and that this swinging or rocking of the foxing-applying tool is brought about by rocking the finger 330 clockwise to the desired extent to engage the small roll 323 and move it into its dotted-line position. As soon as the indenting wheel 3! has pressed the upper edge of the foxing against the shoe, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 17, the finger 333 is swung back into the position shown, and the tool-carrying arm 39! is rotated by the yielding pull of the cable 3H6 in the opposite direction to swing the foxing-applying tool 3! in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 17 into the full-line position 

